三顾茅庐 sāngùmáolú to earnestly request someone's services Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 三顾茅庐 三顧茅廬 sāngùmáolú to earnestly request someone's services To make earnest and repeated requests for someone to take up a post or help with a cause; literally "to visit the thatched cottage three times," based on the story of 刘备 liúbèi recruiting 诸葛亮 zhūgěliàng in the 三国演义 sānguóyǎnyì. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.240 per million Cross-References Variant of 茅庐三顾 máolúsāngù草庐三顾 cǎolúsāngù三顾草庐 sāngùcǎolú Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
三顾茅庐 三顧茅廬 sāngùmáolú to earnestly request someone's services To make earnest and repeated requests for someone to take up a post or help with a cause; literally "to visit the thatched cottage three times," based on the story of 刘备 liúbèi recruiting 诸葛亮 zhūgěliàng in the 三国演义 sānguóyǎnyì. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.240 per million Cross-References Variant of 茅庐三顾 máolúsāngù草庐三顾 cǎolúsāngù三顾草庐 sāngùcǎolú Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
